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Data Assets & Alpha Group: A Conversation with Man Group’s Chief Risk Officer Darrel Yawitch

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The Differences Between Disciplined and Systematic Investors

I think people have maybe the mistaken impression that discretionary businesses are not as reliant on data as systematic businesses are. The difference comes in what they do with the data, he says. Crowding is a really good example of this - from a risk management point of view, we need to know how crowded a position is. But crowding itself is also a source of alpha. So we need systems, technology and data that enable us to do both parts of that process but to look at it differently.

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